Thesaurus results for BRIBING

bribing

verb

present participle of bribe

as in seducing

to influence someone with a bribe meat inspectors were bribed, and the contaminated beef was sold to the public

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Recent Examples of bribing Joseph Livreri and his brother Anthony Livreri pleaded guilty to conspiracy and bribery after being charged with bribing a former New York City buildings commissioner who was part of Eric Adams' Democratic administration. — Arkansas Online, 12 Sep. 2026 Lucienne, a mountain girl charmed by Ortiz, eased their passage by bribing the right gendarme. — Literary Hub, 31 Aug. 2026 At a press conference Thursday afternoon, LeVota denied the allegations but identified Legislator DaRon McGee as the candidate that federal prosecutors are accusing LeVota of bribing. — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 8 Aug. 2026 Rand Paul, in particular, seems bent on getting Fauci prosecuted for allegedly bribing and coercing intelligence officials to aid in his cover-up. — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026 They are charged with wire fraud conspiracy, bribery in sporting contests and money laundering conspiracy for allegedly bribing Beasley to manipulate his performance. — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026 Similar raids by the feds at addresses tied to then-Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and then-San Leandro City Councilmember Bryan Azevedo eventually led to criminal indictments against both politicians, as well as the businessmen accused of bribing them. — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 9 June 2026 Andrew openly discussed bribing law-enforcement officials in War Room chats, and bragged on social media about his connections. — Heidi Blake, New Yorker, 8 June 2026 Fairley also admitted Thursday to placing wagers and recruiting and bribing college basketball players to underperform in games in a separate NCAA point-shaving case brought by federal prosecutors in Pennsylvania. — Tom Winter, NBC news, 28 May 2026

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Verb

Still, with more than 40,000 industry jobs lost in the past few years, soundstages and vendor storefronts sitting empty, and lucrative overseas incentives seducing even more production away, things are bleak in town right now.

— Dominic Patten, Deadline, 6 Aug. 2026
The young women acted as underground assassins, seducing Nazi officers, luring them into the woods and killing them.

— Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2026

Definition of seducing

Verb

The words themselves feel poetic, almost decadent, but the images are robbed of their power to meet them, as each frame feels aimed only at presenting, rather than luring or excavating.

— Siddhant Adlakha, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2026
Using that relationship, Epstein had posed as a talent scout for the brand, luring young women to his hotel room under the pretext of auditions.

— Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of luring

Verb

Technology analysts and traders are not buying the flood of warnings about the dangers of artificial intelligence and the need to slow down development that have recently come from frontier model platforms.

— Tobias Burns, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2026
The video was a hit on social media, where stories about sisters buying homes together have become popular.

— Kelly Marie Coyne, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of buying

Verb

In other words, setting direction, then guiding, persuading and motivating others, isn’t enough anymore.

— Liz Guthridge, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026
But as in other eligibility cases brought against the NCAA, the athletes here came up short in persuading Chambers that their exclusion harms a market that antitrust law ought to protect.

— Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of persuading

Verb

And by engaging with these powerful militaries, the group reinforced its self-image as a major regional player that was uniquely capable of liberating the Muslim world from corrupting American and Israeli influence.

— April Longley Alley, Foreign Affairs, 11 Sep. 2026
Gadgets with screens of any size have long been allegedly melting, rotting, and/or corrupting the brains of youths for decades.

— Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of corrupting

Verb

After Gerald’s Game (2017), Doctor Sleep (2019), and The Life of Chuck (2024) — and with The Mist on the way — there’s something enticing about Flanagan taking his cumulative knowledge of the author’s lexicon to revisit King’s very first novel.

— Entertainment Weekly, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Sep. 2026
Anything that retains moisture is enticing to springtails, as well as other critters such as silverfish, book lice, and millepedes.

— Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of enticing

Verb

One benefit of Emiliano Martinez’s long goodbye was Villa having time to map out the road ahead.

— Aston Villa, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
From Elle Duncan's OJ-like gloves to having Roger Goodell put on a kangaroo coat, the Netflix broadcasts feel so cheap.

— Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of having

Verb

The court heard how the former nurse, now 36, attacked babies in her care by administering air into their blood and stomachs, overfeeding them with milk, physically assaulting them and poisoning them with insulin.

— Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2026
Former Titans scout Blaise Taylor received consecutive life sentences after his conviction for poisoning his pregnant girlfriend.

— Chris Branch, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of poisoning

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